Scott Westerfeld Quotes
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
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The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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I think in a few days we will be in a position to convey again the situation to the different governments and probably take a decision soon. There is a lot of work to be done.
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As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.
